Im not mad about the Oscar winners this year.

Adrien Brody won Best Actor for The Brutalist, a film with a budget of under $10 million.

Not unfair, necessarily, but definitely ironic.

Conan as an Oscars statuette in the foreground, with Conan in bits inspired by Dune Part Two and The Substance in the background.

I, for one, walked away from my experience with it as impressed as I was upset.

But its in the films moment-to-moment storytelling that the irony comes through.

In case you havent watched it yet you should heres basically what happens.

Split image of the Terminator, Bruce Lee, and John Wick.

She ends up starting to take something called The Substance.

The new body, who calls herself Sue, replaces Elisabeth.

Everybody loves Sue shes beautiful, young, hot.

Michael B Jordan with a gun in front of a Rotten Tomatoes Fresh score.

She gets the opportunities that were denied Elisabeth, despite them basically kind of being the same person.

Whats more, The Substance is a very out there film, even by horror standards.

It looked for a little bit that Moore might be able to swing a win anyway.

Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle in her home with a billboard of Anora outside her window.

I dont mean this as a slight against Madison at all.

Like I said, Idont really believe that Madisons win was unfair.

It was, without a doubt, an excellent performance.

Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist

But I have to highlight the similarities.

Is this the entire reason that Madison won the award?

But did Moores age work against her?

A split image of Demi Moore’s Elizabeth blowing a kiss to the camera and Margaret Qualley’s Sue blowing a kiss the camera in The Substance.

The iconic talk show host brought the show alive with electric absurdity.

Mikey Madison in Anora